Education

The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development is making up to $850,000 in state grants available to businesses, trade associations, and colleges for the training of high-tech workers. Grants will be offered to train workers in biotechnology, advanced manufacturing, stem cell research, and renewable energy. ...

Gov. Jim Doyle has established a goal of capturing 10 percent of the stem cell market by 2015, and he has announced a $1 million funding commitment to help bring that about. The state will invest $1 million in Stemina Biomarker Discovery, a start-up company...

The Wisconsin delegation hit the ground running at BIO 2007, an international conference for the biotechnology industry. Among the significant news generated at BIO was the announcement by Mark Underwood, president of Quincy Biosciences, that the company has developed a preclinical compound for the...

How does Wisconsin stack up to the nation's best biotechnology hubs? This week in Boston, the state will have plenty to thump its chest about at the annual Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) Convention, writes columnist Tom Still. In this edition of Inside Wisconsin, he...

Wisconsin bioscience companies have positioned themselves as national and international leaders in a range of industries - from molecular diagnostics to medical imaging. In this guest column, Jim Leonhart, executive vice president of the Wisconsin Biotechnology and Medical Device Association, explains how these businesses are...

University of Wisconsin-Madison professors Sean Carroll and Laura Kiessling received a high honor this week as they joined 70 other scholars elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Election to the academy is one of the most prestigious honors an American scientist can receive....

For a company with a global reach, Promega Corp. goes about its business - the business of innovation - rather quietly. The privately held maker of research tools devotes 12 percent of its annual revenue to research and development, and the result has been 130...

The consensus opinion is that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision will have a profound impact on patent law, but will it affect the dispute over stem cell patents held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation? Combatants on both sides of the dispute weigh in,...

Are American technology and life-science businesses getting a bum rap when they take advantage of the H-1B specialty worker program? Attorney Grant Sovern thinks so, and in this guest column he defends the program and urges Congress to lift the cap on the number of...

How do we excite more students about careers in the STEM disciplines? That's a question many educators and employers have been asking lately. In his latest Inside Wisconsin column, Tom Still recognizes Timothy Jump, an educator who may have the answer. Jump, who recently led...